C: Well yes, but I am exceptionally
organised and efficient and it is my job to do the introductions to court, yes –
so – one of us needs to get this thing going do we not?

Maybe you can tell me a bit about your role at court?

C: I herald in visitors to the Emperor at the
Imperial Court and I am often accompanied by the Cook – who is a wok - and the
Bonze – who is a lantern – and we have good fun.

And you are... a scroll? How did that come about?

C: The music of the opera of Le Rossignol took
the design team to Cubism, and in Cubism you have things where the parts are
lots of bits of the same thing – you know, like the Violin Woman – and so the
puppet design looked at objects and then those objects influenced the movement
of the puppet. So I am a scroll and I was very popular with the puppeteers, yes
I was.

And why was that?

C: Because I leap onstage in a dynamic and
high energy way! Like a scroll unfurling. In the end a puppeteer called
Valentin – who is a breakdancer – got to operate me. Lucky boy.